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Let our experts How you can affect New Sigma Theta Tau credit card do the work the future of nursing program benefits nursing research page 2 page3 page 3 News Briefs Support nursing Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing research The Sigma Theta Tau Development Committee has set a new goal: Increase the research endowment fund by $100,000 annually. To learn about giving options, please visit www.nursingsociety.org/ in Clinical Practice philanthropy or call 1.888.634.7575. Third Quarter 2001 Volume 2, Number 3 www.nursingsociety. org Map out your career Available on the Sigma Theta Tau Web site, Career Map offers tools Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow for nurses to manage their careers with purpose. Visit the gears up for campaign launch "Careers" section of www.nursingsociety.org and search for a new job, get customized In 1999, a small group of organizations career advice, discover started discussing a joint communications scholarship opportun crusade to address the nursing shortage. Now ities and strategize your 30 members strong, Nurses for a Healthier career path. Tomorrow is about to launch its much anticipated campaign.
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing ) NURSES FOR AHEALTHIER TOMORROW FROM PAGE 1 to distribute the advertising campaign -J Health Plan Inc. well as efforts to reach"o---dance this summer. Due to limitations with Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow counselors. To make your pledge, please Campaign features seven nurses usage rights, the ads must be placed as continues to seek tax-deductible contact Kathy Bennison at As a silver sponsor of Nurses for a public service announcements and not monetary contributions to help fund bennison@stti. iupui.edu or Healthier Tomorrow, JWT Specialized as paid advertising. production and placement of radio 1.888.634.7575 toll free. You may also Communications donated $250,000 in The 30-second television PSA will spots and recruitment brochures, as pledge online at www.nursesource.org.• research and creative services to the be distributed to 200 television stations coalition. nationwide. The distribution list will be The agency's focus group research available on the Nurses for a Healthier with students in grades two through 10 Tomorrow Web site. Nurses for a indicated that young people are not Healthier Tomorrow encourages receiving adequate positive information everyone to contact stations in their 1. Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses about nursing as a profession. The area and ask to air the PSA. For $100, 2. American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow organizations, facilities and individuals 3. American Academy of Nursing advertising campaign fe atures specific will be able to order a PSA kit via the 4. American Association of Colleges of Nursing messages aimed at improving the image Web site to distribute to their local 5. American Association of Critical-Care of nursing while encouraging young stations not included in the initial Nurses/AACN Certification Corp. people to enter the profession. distribution. For an additional cost, an 6. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists In addition to showcasing organization's logo can be placed at the 7. American College of Nurse Practitioners clinicians, the campaign features end of the PSA. 8. American Hospital Association successful nurses in a wide range of The seven print ads may be viewed 9. American Nurses Association work environments and positions. on the coalition's Web site this summer, 10. American Organization of Nurse Executives Communicating the message that along with a mechanism to request 11. American Psychiatric Nurses Association nursing is for everyone, the campaign copies of the ads for local distribution. 12. American Public Health Association also includes men and minorities. Campaign directs prospective 13. American Red Cross Nursing is portrayed as a career in 14. Arthritis Foundation which professionalism, teamwork and nurses and funders to Web site 15. Association of American Medical Colleges leadership are key. The Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow 16. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses The following seven nurses are campaign directs audiences to the 17. Association of Women's Health, Obstetric featured in the campaign: coalition's Web site, www.nursesource.org, and Neonatal Nurses • Sharon Brigner, RN, MS-Senior developed by silver sponsor Vital 18. Emergency Nurses Association Health Policy Analyst, National Careers.com. With an estimated 40 19. Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau Committee to Preserve Social percent of nurses using the Web today, International Security and Medicare in the site has been a critical tool in the 20. Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Washington, D.C. coalition's recruitment and fund-raising • Aurora Hernandez, RN-Staff arsenal. 21. International Society for Health Nurses Nurse, George Washington VitalCareers.com, an Internet Hospital in Washington, D.C. company focused on career content for 22. National Association of Clinical Nurse • Jeff Jefferies, RN, CEN-Staff health care employers and profession 23. National Association of Neonatal Nurses Nurse, Emergency Department, als, was the first organization to sign 24. National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses Laurel Regional Hospital in Laurel, on as a major sponsor of Nurses for a 25. National Association of School Nurses Md. Healthier Tomorrow. 26. National League for Nursing • Sandra Lea, RN, CNOR-Clinical The Nurses for a Healthier 27. National Organization for Associate Administrator, Diagnostic Clinic Tomorrow ads will direct prospective Degree Nursing Center for Outpatient Surgery in nurses to the Web site, where they will 28. National Student Nurses' Association Largo, Fla. discover more about nursing. The site 29. Oncology Nursing Society e Garry Olney, RN, BSN, MBA is being redesigned to complement the 30. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Executive Officer, San Dimas look and feel of the ads, and more Community Hospital in San content will be added, including career Dimas, Calif. profiles of nurses, career resources and e Ja'nice Phillips, RN, PhD, FAAN links to educational programs. Program Director, N ational The site is li~ k e d t () an inter~ ct ive~- 11 --~---=-----=--:: Institute of Nursing Research in health careers job-bank database, Bethesda, Md. operated by VitalCareers.com, allo~ing • John Wesolowski Jr., RN, CRNA Internet users to search for career Staff Anesthetist, R.A. Cowley opportunities nationally. The site also Shock Trauma Center, University provides links to the home pages of all of Maryland Medical System in coalition members. Baltimore, Md. "The Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow site not only is a great tool Each nurse in the campaign for attracting new members to the represents one of the many nursing profession, but also provides opportunities and attractions of the health care career options based on nursing profession. Their biographies personal and professional needs," says are featured on the Nurses for Maurice Salter, chairman of Healthier Tomorrow Web site, Vital Careers. com. www.nursesource.org. "It's an honor to have been Other sponsors join the cause selected to work on this campaign. It's Joining major sponsors VitalCareers.com a campaign that's really needed to and JWT Specialized Communications, boost awareness of our image among Nursing Spectrum is now a bronze the public, specifically our youth," says sponsor of Nurses for a Healthier Sharon Brigner, RN, MS, a member of ' Tomorrow. For an easy, timesaving way to keep up with all the new the Honor Society of Nursing. "There "In addition to donating adver are so many opportunities within the developments taking place in your professional areas profession, such as policy, research, tising pages in our seven magazines, we of interest, subscribe today to the Online Literature pharmaceutical sales, news and media expect to make contributions of online Review for Nursing and Book Review for Nursing. reporting, and education. For me, and editorial coverage," said Patti nursing has been a real springboard to Rager, RN, MSN, MBA, president and these different avenues." publisher of Nursing Sp ectrum. "Our Online Literature Review For Nursing (subscription rates: Janice Phillips, RN, PhD, FAAN, mission, to support and recognize member $39.95; non-member: $49.95)-Let clinical experts sift registered nurses, is at the heart of all also an Honor Society of Nursing through more than 8,000 new articles listed in Medline®each week. member and the first African-American we do at Nursing Spectrum. We are You will receive weekly e-mail bulletins summarizing the latest to receive the American Cancer Society dedicated to programs that further professorship in oncology nursing, nursing's public image and that articles published in your preselected interest areas. You may also strongly believes that nurses need to be encourage today's nurses to stay in the review concise abstracts of the articles and gain access to the full text, profession. We admire Nurses for a a part of the nursing shortage solution. if available. "We need to revitalize and re Healthier Tomorrow's united efforts to address the nursing shortage with an energize those who are in the profes Online Book Review for Nursing (Free)-This service offers a sion to help recruitment," Phillips says. innovative communications "We really need to work on enhancing campaign." quick and convenient way to access more than 65,000 book and our image rather than waiting for The Helene Fuld Health Trust, software titles online. You may look forward to receiving expert others to help us. If we can go back to HSBC, Trustee, whose purpose is the reviews of selected titles! the real reasons we selected nursing as improvement of the health, welfare or a profession, continue to strengthen education of student nurses, is also a To subscribe log on to www.nursingsociety.org and select "My Info bronze sponsor. Their major grant was our ties, talk about the issues and be Search" and create your customized profile. proactive, I feel optimistic that we can used to produce advertisements and make a difference." will help place them across the country. Other major contributors to the As part of the service you will receive concise weekly e-mail bulletins Distribution to begin this summer coalition include the Rollin M. identifying the must-see books and articles that fit your profile. 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2 EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE • July 2001 www.nursingsociety. org I -1, .... - J sT OUT OF YOUR MENTOR FROM PAGE1 techniques, and the how-to's of being both practice and move on to the next HoW you can affect a mentor and protege. challenge. After listening to Sjodin present how • Don't burn bridges; rather remain she moved from student to successful in continual contact with the the future of nursing businesswoman and author, I realized the mentor even as you are moving on critical, active role a protege has in a to other opportunities. Your successful mentoring relationship. mentor will benefit from your Several specific guidelines can help progress. These are valuable potential nurse proteges choose an lifelong friends who can be called appropriate mentor and promote their upon again in the future for pn;> fessional growth and development. assistance or for recommending • Know what it is you need to master. mentors as you define other needs. Once defined, look for the person in your community who best demon Sigma Theta Tau International strates mastery of that skill. That offers members the opportunity to work person can be a peer, faculty with mentors and develop leadership member or someone in practice. skills in a formalized fellowship through That person at first glance might Chiron: The Mentor-Fellow Forum. seem unapproachable or not readily During a 12-month program, nurses available to you, which brings us to who desire skill development in specific the second guideline. leadership areas are guided by • Sjodin suggests knowing what you experienced mentors as they implement can do for that person and what individualized plans and participate in makes it impossible for that person group activities. Potential mentors and to say no to you. This makes it a fellows are encouraged to seek out two-way process and both of you partners and apply as a pair to the can gain immeasurably from the Chiron Mentor-Fellow 2002 program. expenence. The application deadline is August 31, Members at the 1999 convention in San Diego proudly display their T-shirts after • Be humble and thankful for the 2001. For more information, visit the a walk/run to support nursing research. The 2001 Biennial Convention, to be held opportunity to work with the Web site at www.nursingsociety.org, in Indianapolis, will feature opportunities to learn and network, including the expert. You have gained something call1.888.634.7575 or e-mail: popular walk/run, educational sessions, awards programs, poster presentations you will be able to use in a lifelong [email protected]. and more. pursuit of your chosen career. • Summarize all you have gained Marlene Ruiz, RN, BSN, MA, is together, being sure to list the gains director of education and consulting By May Wykle for both parties. services at Kaiser Permanente, San • Apply all you have learned in your Diego, Calif With every challenge comes opportunity. And today, nurses are facing their share of both. From severe staffing shortages and fewer young people entering the field to Help support sicker patients and information overload, many nurses are being stretched to maximum capacity. 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www. nursingsociety. org EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE • July 2001 3 ( HEALT, ~ARE ffH SPIRITUALITY FROM PAGE 1 relationship between r _us participation and lifespan, healthy self parish nurses that has developed a care habits and mental health. Faith and standard curriculum. The ANA, with prayer have been found to be coping the Health Ministries Association, has mechanisms for patients with heart published the scope and standards of disease, cancer and other critical illnesses. parish nursing practice, and ANCC Though the findings are controversial, specialty certification is pending. several studies have indicated that Several universities are now offering intercessory prayer may have therapeutic master's degrees in faith communities or value for patient outcomes. In a recent health ministries. Nurses often choose study of individuals with HIV disease, to become parish nurses because they Tuck, McCain and Elswick (2001) found are seeking greater professional and that spirituality was positively related to personal fulfillment, and some view it quality of life, social support and as a return to the essence of nursing. effective coping and negatively related to Parish nurses have the opportunity to perceived stress, uncertainty and provide spiritual care in faith communi psychological distress. ties and settings that are supportive of Other outcomes are felt and that role. Although parish nurses experienced but cannot be directly provide health promotion and disease measured. The intuitive knowing that prevention activities, there is also an characterizes every expert nurse enhances emphasis on spiritual caregiving. In a our awareness of patients' needs and Incorporating spiritual care into nursing's holistic approach benefits both the health recent national study of parish nurses, helps us choose how best to meet these care practitioner and consumer. prayer was the most frequently reported needs. In daily caring interaction, nurses spiritual intervention. provide a presence that empowers, Additionally, nurses who work in those in their care. This inclusion need Effect on patient health comforts and heals. Such a genuine certain other specialty areas, such as not require more time or even any How do we know that spiritual wellness human connection nurtures the spirits of hospice, oncology, palliative care and particular educational preparation. has a beneficial effect on our patients' both the patient and the nurse. • mental health, often respond to the Rather, most of us already embrace health? Some outcomes are measurable Tuck, I., McCain, N.L., & Elswick, R.K. spiritual needs of patients and families. attitudes and beliefs that are consistent as evidenced by research. Though the (2001). Spirituality and psychosocial Such settings may be more likely to with the support of spirituality in majority of research has focused on factors in persons living with HIV. support these nursing actions. It is practice. Some of the values and actions religious faith, findings tend to support Journal of Advanced Nursing, 33(6), important to note that attention to that become second nature are not that both religious faith and spiritual 776-783. necessarily labeled as "spiritual," but spirituality should not be limited to practices positively impact not only Inez Tuck, RN, PhD, is associate times of trauma or crisis. In addition to have the ability to comfort the spirit. emotional and psychological health, but professor and chair, Department of responding to spiritual distress, nurses Examples include the concept of presence also physical health. Herbert Benson, a Integrative Systems at the School of can support spiritual wellness and or "being with" others, active listening Harvard physician, studied the impact Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth growth. and touch. These can be intentionally of meditation and faith on stress and University in Richmond, Va . She is a implemented in practice as a conscious supported the placebo effects of beliefs. member of Sigma Theta Tau's Religion vs. spirituality desire to heal and support and not just His findings indicate that hypertension, International Public Relations Confusion about the distinctions complete the task at hand. infertility, allergies, insomnia, depression, Committee. Most of us recognize the importance between religion and spirituality may headaches and chemotherapy-related Beverly Baliko, RN, MSN, C, is a PhD contribute to the uncertainty about of respecting the spiritual expressions of nausea are relieved by practices that candidate at the School of Nursing, appropriate nursing roles and how to others. This requires an adequate spiritual induce relaxation responses. Numerous Virginia Commonwealth University, assess and respond to the spiritual assessment beyond simply asking a studies have indicated a positive Richmond, Va. needs of patients and families. Though patient's religious preference. The many definitions of spirituality exist, assessment should include questions what is spiritual and what comprises about spiritual beliefs, usual practices and spirituality is highly individualized. what patients perceive to be important to Renew your Religion, defined as an organized faith their care. Patients will feel that their belief system, is only qne dimension of spirituality is supported when nurses fllefllbership today! spirituality. More broadly, spirituality acknowledge it and promote their right to cc ucerns ho .." ·" i;Jd ividuals fine! meaning spiri!:!.!al expression. These opportunities - ,.,.,....,. ~ ._... ~.. .:..-~ ~~.... - - :-.!' wavs.toJ Publications Agreement No. 1678078 Nonprofit org. Sigma Theta Tau International U.S. Postage what's Honor Society of Nursing PAID • Indianapolis, IN 550 West North Street Permit No. 130 Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 1118 Toll free: 1.888.634.7575 (US and Canada) • +800.634.7575.1 (International) Fax: 317.634.8188 nursingsociety.org ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Excellence articles are available at nursingsociety.org/publications/excellence.html. Don't miss these articles: Excellence in Clinical Practice: • How to get the most out of your mentor • Why deliver health care with spirituality? 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